Criminal Law

Amazon.com: Sex-Crime Panic: A Journey to the Paranoid Heart of the 1950s: Neil Miller: Books [del.icio.us]

Posted on April 20, 2009

Amazon.com: Why You Can't Trust the News, Volume Two: Cliff Kincaid; Roger Aronoff; Don Irvine, Deborah Lambert: Books [del.icio.us]

Posted on April 20, 2009

Amazon.com: The Culture of Fear: Why Americans Are Afraid of the Wrong Things: Barry Glassner: Books [del.icio.us]

Posted on April 20, 2009

Amazon.com: Folk Devils and Moral Panics: Thirtieth Anniversary Edition: Stanley Cohen: Books [del.icio.us]

Posted on April 20, 2009

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Amazon.com: Satan's Silence: Ritual Abuse And The Making Of A Modern American Witch Hunt: Debbie Nathan, Michael Snedeker: Books [del.icio.us]

Posted on April 20, 2009

Sex Offender Suicides and Other Deaths by A Voice of Reason [del.icio.us]

Posted on April 20, 2009

Sex Offender Statistics by A Voice of Reason [del.icio.us]

Posted on April 20, 2009

Sex Offender Murders by A Voice of Reason [del.icio.us]

Posted on April 20, 2009

Sex Offender Issues, News, Recidivism and Studies by a Voice of Reason [del.icio.us]

Posted on April 20, 2009

PA - Man jailed for trying to torch home

Posted on April 20, 2009
View the article here He could have killed three people, and he gets 1 to 2 years in prison? 04/20/2009 By BRETT HAMBRIGHT George Sheets Jr. claimed he targeted a convicted sex offender when he tried to set fire to a Fulton Township mobile home while three people slept inside...

FL - ACTION ALERT: Supplies requested for Julia Tuttle Causeway RSO's

Posted on April 20, 2009
This was pulled from elsewhere.  Just imagine if you were in the situation where you had to live under a bridge because the state told you you had to.  Please help where you can, I'm sure if you were in this situation, you'd appreciate the help as well...

OH - Joaneen Graham

Posted on April 20, 2009
View the article here 04/20/2009 By Donna J. Miller - Plain Dealer Reporter The sentencing hearing for Joaneen Graham, a 45-year-old Euclid woman convicted of having sex with a juvenile inmate, has been postponed. She was scheduled to be sentenced today to up to 5½ years in prison for sexual battery and assault...

Observe And Report (A date rape "comedy" making millions!)

Posted on April 20, 2009
Wikipedia In today's sex hysteria, I am surprised they are able to get a way with a movie like this. It portrays a flasher at a mall, exposing himself to a bunch of people at the mall, and also, one of the security guards, takes a woman home, who is drunk, and while she is passed out, has sex with her...

WA - State Senate approves sexual predator bill

Posted on April 20, 2009
View the article here 04/20/2009 The Washington Senate unanimously approved legislation Friday sponsored by Rep. Larry Haler (Contact), R-Richland, to protect all students from sexual predators at school. Haler's bill, House Bill 1385, closes a loophole that technically allows teachers to have sexual relations with students over 18 years old, the age of consent in Washington...

What if a state doesn't have a registry or registration? Do I still have to register?

Posted on April 20, 2009
This conversation was started in the "Your Comments" section, started by the user "MOVING!"  I am moving it here for others to see as well.  This is a good question, but, like others have said, I still think you still have to register, due to the Adam Walsh Act...

TX - HB-4411 - Looks like a drug dealer registry is in the works

Posted on April 20, 2009
But who cares about all the other violent crimes, like murderers, gang members, drug users, DUI offenders, etc. They should just create one bill, to include ALL criminals on one large registry for all to see, IMO! And hey, now those in Texas will know where to find some drugs! 04/20/2009 Click the image below to view the bill

Child abductions by strangers actually rare

Posted on April 19, 2009
View the article here 04/18/2009 By Tom McNiff Crime wasn't an issue in tiny Benton, the southern Illinois town where Regina Freeman grew up. "Two murders in 20 years," Freeman says wistfully, and one of them was the result of a drunken brawl. The other, she says, was committed by the unlikeliest of suspects: a friendly young man who lived near the local middle school and handed out candy to boys and girls passing by on their way home...

IL - Senate approves Dillard's sex offender legislation

Posted on April 19, 2009
View the article here 04/19/2009 The Illinois Senate has approved a bill that would require all sex offenders to register with their county sheriff. S.B. 1702 was initiated by the Illinois Sheriffs' Association and sponsored by state Sen. Kirk Dillard (Email, Contact), R-Hinsdale...

TX - Gov. Perry Backs Resolution Affirming Texas? Sovereignty Under 10th Amendment

Posted on April 19, 2009
Isn't it hypocritical of these folks to NOW want to talk about the constitution, when they have been ignoring constitutional rights for many decades now, of sex offenders and others. Now they want to bitch and moan! Yep, nothing but hypocrites!

VT - Putting laws to the test

Posted on April 19, 2009
View the article here 04/19/2009 By BRENT CURTIS While three Vermont communities prepare to defend local laws defining where sex offenders can live, key cases have been fought - even at the federal level - and precedents have been set. Nationwide, federal courts have shot down constitutional arguments that residency laws prohibiting sex offenders from living in certain areas violate an individual's rights...

CA - Local rules go even tougher on where registered sex offenders can - and can't - live

Posted on April 19, 2009
View the article here 04/18/2009 By Alfred Lee Trying to avoid becoming dumping grounds for registered sex offenders, area cities are moving to impose even more stringent residency restrictions that those outlined in Jessica's Law. - Some place has to be a "dumping ground" for offenders! More than two years after the passage of the statewide law banning registered offenders from living near schools and parks, Arcadia and Pasadena are the most recent local cities considering ordinances that would put nearly all of their territories out of bounds for offenders...

FL - Tougher laws leave sex offenders with no options

Posted on April 19, 2009
View the article here 04/19/2009 By Michael Mayo Here's where most respectable people want convicted sex offenders to live: Anywhere but near them. Here's where sex offenders are allowed to live, after a wave of get-tough residency restrictions imposed by South Florida localities: Almost nowhere...

CA - Coalinga State Hospital (Civil Commitment) for Sex Offenders

Posted on April 19, 2009
Video of the Coalinga State Hospital (Civil Commitment Center) in California. This facility houses sex offenders, not just pedophiles, but, like usual, they zero in on the so called "pedophiles" only. Demostration outside Coalinga State Hospital

TX - Why not just tattoo their foreheads and be done with it?

Posted on April 19, 2009
Courtesy of Grits For Breakfast 04/19/2009 Drivers licenses are the wrong place to try to solve unrelated social problems, and here's a good example why. On Monday, the House Public Safety Committee will hear legislation - HB 1091 by Rep. Tan Parker (Contact) - that would identify sex offenders as such on their drivers licenses...

FL - County looks to protect neighborhood from sex offenders

Posted on April 19, 2009
View the article here 04/14/2009 By Scott Wyman Sex offenders will be at least temporarily barred from moving into a neighborhood that has become a haven amid growing living restrictions across South Florida. Broadview Park is a small working class neighborhood no larger than a square mile, yet it?s home to 5 percent of all sexual offenders in Broward...

NJ - License tag law gets court test

Posted on April 19, 2009
View the article here No, the plate on the left is not real, it's something I added RSO to.  It's just another Scarlett Letter for sex offenders to shame and humiliate! 04/19/2009 A New Jersey law that will require drivers younger than 21 to display identifying decals on their vehicle license plates is being challenged in court...

AK - House passes bill outlawing beastiality

Posted on April 18, 2009
View the article here 04/18/2009 JUNEAU (AP) - The state House has unanimously approved a bill that outlaws sex with an animal. State Rep. Bob Lynn, R-Anchorage, filed the bill in response to an incident last year in Klawock in which a 26-year-old man was accused of taking a family's dog, tying it to a tree, taping its muzzle and having sex with it...

FL - Ex-substitute who had sex with student gets house arrest

Posted on April 18, 2009
View the article here 04/17/2009 By TODD LESKANIC - The Tampa Tribune NEW PORT RICHEY - A young victim's desire to move on with his life probably spared Lisa Marinelli something worse. But the punishment handed down today to the former substitute teacher for having sex with a 17-year-old student still brings a myriad of stringent and humiliating conditions...

PA - Couple seeks to change Megan?s Law restrictions

Posted on April 18, 2009
View the article here 04/18/2009 By Steve Mocarsky Haughwouts feel West Pittston?s residency laws on sex offenders are unfair. WEST PITTSTON ? A man who was deemed a violent sexual predator in 2001 and his wife believe the borough?s six-month-old residency restrictions on sexual offenders are unfair, and that Megan?s Law for Pennsylvania should be amended...

IA - Hearing on Iowa sex offender laws will be Monday

Posted on April 18, 2009
View the article here If you live in this state, attend this meeting, and let your voice be heard. 04/17/2009 DES MOINES - The Iowa Legislature has scheduled a public hearing Monday night on proposed changes to the state's sex offender laws. The hearing on Senate File 340/House File 711, the Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act, will be held from 6:30-8:30 p...

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